New Jersey

noun

1. a state in the eastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 7,836 square miles (20,295 square kilometers). : Trenton. : NJ (for use with zip code), N.J.

New Jersey

noun

1. a state of the eastern US, on the Atlantic and Delaware Bay: mostly low-lying, with a heavy industrial area in the northeast and many coastal resorts. Capital: Trenton. Pop: 8 638 396 (2003 est). Area: 19 479 sq km (7521 sq miles) AbbreviationN.J.with zip codeNJ

New Jersey

1. State in the northeastern United States, bordered by New York to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Delaware Bay to the south and west, and Pennsylvania to the west. Its capital is Trenton, and its largest city is Newark .

Notes

One of the thirteen colonies .

Other Words From

• New Jersey·ite [jur, -zee-ahyt], New Jersey·an noun

Example Sentences

The goal, she says by video chat from New Jersey, should be “to find something that people would rather be eating, or would like just as much.”

From Time

With Mitchell in the driver’s seat, Pinnock and Mitchell’s wife, Kisha, who is Pinnock’s sister, went along for the long ride from New Jersey to Texas, helping 2-year-old Blake fine-tune his alphabet recitation.

From Washington Post

He enjoyed hearing about Victoria’s childhood in New Jersey and how she and her friends would skip school to hang out by Springsteen’s house in the hopes of catching a glimpse of him.

From Washington Post

When he was 4, his mother moved north with him and his brother, stopping in New Jersey before settling on Chicago’s South Side.

From ProPublica

The rocker pleaded guilty to drinking alcohol in an enclosed area, the lone charge remaining from his arrest last November in a national park in New Jersey.

From Washington Post

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to serve a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.

From The Daily Beast

“These towns that are doing it just continue to make New Jersey less and less competitive,” Christie said.

From The Daily Beast

John B. Stetson was born in 1830 in New Jersey, the son of a hat maker.

From The Daily Beast

She said she was originally from New Jersey but now resides in Brooklyn.

From The Daily Beast

I am watching the sunrise from the 39th floor of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

From The Daily Beast

The coast of New Jersey is now sinking at the rate of about two feet in a hundred years.

From Project Gutenberg

Their donations amounted to 2030 shirts, and they obtained 77 shirts and 380 pairs of stockings from New Jersey.

From Project Gutenberg

He retreated hastily through New Jersey with a force daily diminished by desertion.

From Project Gutenberg

Loyalty seems to have been the prevalent feeling of New Jersey on the first passing of the King's troops through it.

From Project Gutenberg

New Jersey—as they were now called—was under the same rule as New York—until 1738, when it became a separate colony.

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